Maybe I'm missing something here, but to look to me like the PHI and E-Pan are two different products. One is a MIDI controller and the other is a synthesizer. So what's the problem?
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Hi Catt
Everyone has the right to their own opinions. With respect to the E-pan, it is certainly not for everyone. As I have always said (for years now) the E-pan is not, in any shape or form, designed to replace the traditional steelpan. The traditional steelpan will always have its demand. Please note I said ALWAYS. The E-pan is going to come close to sounding like the traditional pan as time progresses, but there isen't any electric instrument that sounds exactly as the acoustic instrument does (e.g. the piano and the electronic piano, the v-drum and the acoustic drum). If you visit my website at www.napeinc.com you will see all the advantages of the electronic steelpan.
My friend, please note that Jimi Hendrix is Jimi Hendrix on an electronic guitar. You give him an acoustic guitar and all of a sudden he is not known for that. The E-pan will see the rise of a different breed of musicianship of pan playing. As I have said time and time again, some of the challenges that the E-pan will solve is micing, and different projects that would be done with pannists in the studio.
One of the main reasons for creating the E-pan, which you may or may not be able to relate to, was that the steelpan player used to have the opportunity to play with the calypsonians around Carnival time and record in the studio. But, the calypsonian drifted away from hiring the different pannists because the steelpan tone was made accessible on the keyboard back in the mid 80's. Yamaha was one of the first to do this. Since then, most calypsonians (David Rudder, Machel Monatno ... and the list goes on) used the keyboard to get the pan tone. The average listener could not tell the difference unfortunately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IbFOrQFBs
So Catt, everyone is not as versatile as you are maybe and cannot play different instruments like trumpet, violin, keyboard etc. But, with the use of the E-pan, a steelpan player now has the capabilities of pressing a button and sounding like a trumpeter, a violinist or keyboard player and he or she does not have to re-learn a new instrument. What the E-pan player now adds to their arcenal when they go on a gig makes them a little more versatile.
Hopefully these few words will help you understand the different applications that the E-pan can be applied and used in.
I am not trying to convince you, but more educate and enlighten and also help the readers understand some of the reasons for my invention.
Thanks,
Salmon Cupid
Inventor of the World's First Electronic Synthesized Steelpan
Phone: (416) 617-0860
E-mail: salmon@napeinc.com
Wow! Thank you very much Mr Cupid, I am honored to receive this most informative reply from the inventor himself. I especially appreciate that you have drawn a distinction between 'convincing' as opposed to 'infoming'; as I feel that is very important in any discussion.
and I very much appreciate you taking the time and effort to share your thoughts on the intended applications of your creation.
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but either way i'm still tryna figure out why anyone would want a pan-shaped synthesizer in the first place. just makes no sense to me.
Everyone has the right to their own opinions. With respect to the E-pan, it is certainly not for everyone. As I have always said (for years now) the E-pan is not, in any shape or form, designed to replace the traditional steelpan. The traditional steelpan will always have its demand. Please note I said ALWAYS. The E-pan is going to come close to sounding like the traditional pan as time progresses, but there isen't any electric instrument that sounds exactly as the acoustic instrument does (e.g. the piano and the electronic piano, the v-drum and the acoustic drum). If you visit my website at www.napeinc.com you will see all the advantages of the electronic steelpan.
My friend, please note that Jimi Hendrix is Jimi Hendrix on an electronic guitar. You give him an acoustic guitar and all of a sudden he is not known for that. The E-pan will see the rise of a different breed of musicianship of pan playing. As I have said time and time again, some of the challenges that the E-pan will solve is micing, and different projects that would be done with pannists in the studio.
One of the main reasons for creating the E-pan, which you may or may not be able to relate to, was that the steelpan player used to have the opportunity to play with the calypsonians around Carnival time and record in the studio. But, the calypsonian drifted away from hiring the different pannists because the steelpan tone was made accessible on the keyboard back in the mid 80's. Yamaha was one of the first to do this. Since then, most calypsonians (David Rudder, Machel Monatno ... and the list goes on) used the keyboard to get the pan tone. The average listener could not tell the difference unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IbFOrQFBs
So Catt, everyone is not as versatile as you are maybe and cannot play different instruments like trumpet, violin, keyboard etc. But, with the use of the E-pan, a steelpan player now has the capabilities of pressing a button and sounding like a trumpeter, a violinist or keyboard player and he or she does not have to re-learn a new instrument. What the E-pan player now adds to their arcenal when they go on a gig makes them a little more versatile.
Hopefully these few words will help you understand the different applications that the E-pan can be applied and used in.
I am not trying to convince you, but more educate and enlighten and also help the readers understand some of the reasons for my invention.
Thanks,
Salmon Cupid
Inventor of the World's First Electronic Synthesized Steelpan
Phone: (416) 617-0860
E-mail: salmon@napeinc.com
and I very much appreciate you taking the time and effort to share your thoughts on the intended applications of your creation.
respectfully,
Catt